The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-06-14
ELLA YANCE'S GRIEF
AT THE AnnEsr orlrRn HUSBAND.
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heAileged D'samiss, Charles McCarty, II
philadelphia Yssterdhy-Tho Couple DO.
eeived by a Deeoy Letter written by
}g n DetcctiSe-The Man Denies,

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whose marriage to Ella Vance, Of this city,
and the uonsatlon 1t created are etill fresh
In the public mind, was arrested at Phila.
delphia yesterday, and hiH young bride
made a scene on the street. McCarty Ia
accused Of bigamy, and held as u fugitive
from justice. He Is also accused OF per.
jury, in swearing at st.. O%lsiraville that
Miss Vance was Of legal age whom no up.
piled Tor q marriage license. The follow.
Ing special 10 tho INr~RLLloKNcER from
Philadelphia tells the story Of the arrest
and Its reference to forgery is doubtless O
mistake Tor perjury:
Special Dispatehi 10 he Iahllgeae1. /,
PHILADELPHIA, juno 1S.-The elope,
ment from Wheeling three weeks ago O.
seventeen-yoass-old Mias Ella Vance, with
Frank McCarty, a handsome young man
employed as q clerk by the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Company, has had o sensa
tional climax. The young man was ar.
rested hero to-day on charged Of higamy
and beings fugitive from j%uatice, and the
young girl who accompanied him created
an exciting scene by clingins to him fran.
ticallyt and Swailing aloud on the way
through the crowded streets to the station
house.
TIE ELorRMENT.
Three months ago McCarty, who
comes OF good family In Pittsburgh, mel
Miss Vance In Wheeling and began pay
ing her attention. Tho girls father,
James Vance, q well.to.do engineer EN-
ployed by the Baltimore K Ohio railroad,
made inquiries about McCarthy's career,
and then forbade Ella keeping company
with him. The girl thought otherw wise
and frequently met the young man away
from home, and on May Is, after telling
her mother that abe was going shopping
she astonished her friends by clipping
with the handsome clerk.
travelled as far as Pittsburgh and met the
eye OF a woman who claimed to be- the
young name deserted wife. She went to
Wheeling and told Mr.. Vance, showing
her marriage certificate.
For several. weeks there was no tidingH
Of the runaway couple. Then on May 81
Mrs. Vance received a letter dated Phila.
delphia from her daughter, in which she
said she was happy and we'll. She asked
1.-THE family to write to her at the post.
office. The father took up the clue, came
hero and had an interview with Ohief o.
Detectives Woods. Photographs and des'
criptions Of tho couple were furnished and
sent all over the country. Detective
Allemindger, who was assigned to the
case, then directed a letter to Miss Vance
at the Philadelphia postotfice, and the
clerks we're told to call al officer if any one
called for it. The letter waa advertised in
! the papers, but for days no one came, and
it waa supposed the couple had left the
city.
TIE CAPTURE.
This afternoon the bride and groom
stepped up to the bax and asked for the
letter. A detective Wa called at once and
McCarty was placed under arrest.
The girl was thunderstruck, and sobbed
and chung to her escort as he was taken
down Chestnut street, followed by q large
crowd. At the Central Station McOarty
demanded to know the charge.
"Bigamy and being a fugitive from JUS.
tice," answered the detective.
"My God, Frank, don'tleave me! It il
not truel " is not trueW was all the girl
could Say, as sho ran to him and kissed
him wildly. Then she begged to be i'm.
p%risoned with him, but this Of course was
refused.
McCsrty denied the charge. The girl
said that they had been marriedin Bridge
port, Ohio, on the day Of the elopement
and had aiterward gone to Baltimore.
Then they came here and McCarty got
employment as a street car conductor. He
said that the Pittsburgh woman was Mol
ly Miller, was four years his senior, he be.
ing So, and that be had lived with her for
sometime, but had never married her.
He says the marriage certificate is a for.
gerry. The charge Of forgery against Nc
Carty relates to the marriage license used
in Bridgeport, it being said that he forged
an application for this paper. He was
locked up to await q requiaition and Miss
Vance's parents were notified.
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